]]>http://www.vg247.com/2012/12/13/nintendo-downloads-na-crimson-shroud-adventure-time-arkham-city/feed/6Nintendo Downloads: Crimson Shroud, Hydroventure lead this week’s contenthttp://www.vg247.com/2012/12/10/nintendo-downloads-crimson-shroud-hydroventure-lead-this-weeks-content/
http://www.vg247.com/2012/12/10/nintendo-downloads-crimson-shroud-hydroventure-lead-this-weeks-content/#commentsMon, 10 Dec 2012 16:02:47 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=323141Nintendo has released its weekly eShop update trailer. This week sees the release of the next instalment of Level-5’s GUILD01 collection, the impressive-looking Crimson Shroud. There’s also the cute platform-puzzler Hydroventure: Spin Cycle and Wizard Defenders. Get the trailer below for prices and footage.

]]>http://www.vg247.com/2012/12/10/nintendo-downloads-crimson-shroud-hydroventure-lead-this-weeks-content/feed/1Crimson Shroud dated for 3DS eShop in Europe and North Americahttp://www.vg247.com/2012/11/29/crimson-shroud-dated-for-3ds-eshop-in-europe-and-north-america/
http://www.vg247.com/2012/11/29/crimson-shroud-dated-for-3ds-eshop-in-europe-and-north-america/#commentsThu, 29 Nov 2012 21:24:09 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=319958Crimson Shroud from Yasumi Matsuno and Level-5 has been given a release date in the both Europe and North America.

The game is a new RPG that “reimagines the tabletop RPG, and puts the power of the dice in the player’s hands to determine their fates.”

Developed through the Guild01 partnership, it’s the third title to be released in the series. Previous entries were Aero Porter from Seaman creator Yoot Saito, and Liberation Maiden from Suda 51.

Games created via Guild02 will include offerings from designers Keiji Inafune, Kazuya Asano, Takemaru Abiko and Kaz Ayabe.

Crimson Shroud lands on the 3DS eShop December 13.

]]>http://www.vg247.com/2012/11/29/crimson-shroud-dated-for-3ds-eshop-in-europe-and-north-america/feed/0Yasumi Matsuno says he didn’t depart Level-5 over health issueshttp://www.vg247.com/2012/11/10/yasumi-matsuno-says-he-didnt-depart-level-5-over-health-issues/
http://www.vg247.com/2012/11/10/yasumi-matsuno-says-he-didnt-depart-level-5-over-health-issues/#commentsSat, 10 Nov 2012 18:59:39 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=315017Crimson Shroud developer and former Square Enix developer Yasumi Matsuno has taken to Twitter to alleviate fan’s fears that health issues were behind his departure from Level-5. According to Matsuno, he is “in perfect health,” and is “just taking a little time to recharge before my next project.” Concerns over returning health issues seems to prevail on the Internet after his departure was announced earlier this week. It was assumed the same health issues which caused him to leave Square Enix in 2005 had returned. Thankfully, that is not the case. Via Siliconera.
]]>http://www.vg247.com/2012/11/10/yasumi-matsuno-says-he-didnt-depart-level-5-over-health-issues/feed/1Vagrant Story designer departs Level-5http://www.vg247.com/2012/11/08/vagrant-story-designer-departs-level-5/
http://www.vg247.com/2012/11/08/vagrant-story-designer-departs-level-5/#commentsThu, 08 Nov 2012 04:24:51 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=314272Final Fantasy and Vagrant Story veteran Yasumi Matsuno has bid farewell to Professor Layton and Guild01 developer Level-5.

Matsuno, who took a position at Level-5 in June 2011, announced the news on Twitter, as translated by Gematsu.

“I’m sorry to report, but due to personal reasons, next month I’ll be retiring from Level-5,” he said.

There has been much speculation as to the reason for Matsuno’s departure after such a short amount of time, especially as ill health is what motivated him to leave Square Enix in 2005, dropping out of the role of director of Final Fantasy XII, which he provided overarching conceptual design for.

Matsuno said that it’s a good time for him to step down, as his latest game – Crimson Shroud – has released worldwide as 3DSware.

“Even though it was for a short period of time, I was able to work hard without any gross mistakes. I am extremely grateful for the gift of genial teaching I received from everyone. Over and over again, thank you so much. I plan on taking a break for a while. I’m very thankful to have your support from now on,” he concluded.

Matsuno was a key creative behind several very highly-respected Square titles – Final Fantasy Tactics, Vagrant Story and Tactics Ogre, for example.

]]>http://www.vg247.com/2012/11/08/vagrant-story-designer-departs-level-5/feed/2Crashmo, Ikachan, Paper Mario: Sticker Star, others release dates confirmed for North Americahttp://www.vg247.com/2012/10/25/crashmo-ikachan-paper-mario-sticker-star-others-release-dates-confirmed-for-north-america/
http://www.vg247.com/2012/10/25/crashmo-ikachan-paper-mario-sticker-star-others-release-dates-confirmed-for-north-america/#commentsThu, 25 Oct 2012 15:09:41 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=310374Release dates for 3DS titles Paper Mario: Sticker Star, Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask, Crashmo, and others have been confirmed by Nintendo for North America. Since it’s nice to have release dates all in one place, we’ve posted the schedule for you below.

Here’s the full schedule with titles released today via the usual Nintendo update also included:

Also available today from Nintendo is Shock Troopers for Wii Virtual Console, and 18th Gate for DSiWare.

You can have a look at some of the trailers shown during Nintendo Direct this morning here, and re-watch the presentation as well.

3DS currently has a combined library of over 650 traditional packaged and digital games.

]]>http://www.vg247.com/2012/10/25/crashmo-ikachan-paper-mario-sticker-star-others-release-dates-confirmed-for-north-america/feed/1Liberation Maiden, Crimson Shroud, Aero Porter – short video shows gameplayhttp://www.vg247.com/2012/10/09/liberation-maiden-crimson-shroud-aero-porter-short-video-shows-gameplay/
http://www.vg247.com/2012/10/09/liberation-maiden-crimson-shroud-aero-porter-short-video-shows-gameplay/#commentsTue, 09 Oct 2012 18:50:57 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=305320A video featuring a short look at Liberation Maiden, Crimson Shroud, and Aero Porter has been released by Nintendo. The video provides small gameplay clips from the three 3DS eShop titles. Liberation Maiden, from Suda 51, is already out in Europe and is heading to the US as are the other two titles. The games were created in partnership with Level-5 through the Guild01 compilation for Nintendo 3DS, and a follow-up called Guild02 was announced in May 24, and will include designers Keiji Inafune, Kazuya Asano, Takemaru Abiko and Kaz Ayabe.

]]>http://www.vg247.com/2012/10/09/liberation-maiden-crimson-shroud-aero-porter-short-video-shows-gameplay/feed/0Liberation Maiden, Aero Porter, and Crimson Shroud detailedhttp://www.vg247.com/2012/10/04/liberation-maiden-aero-porter-and-crimson-shroud-deatiled/
http://www.vg247.com/2012/10/04/liberation-maiden-aero-porter-and-crimson-shroud-deatiled/#commentsThu, 04 Oct 2012 19:53:57 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=303781Liberation Maiden, Aero Porter, and Crimson Shroud are releasing on eShop, and Level-5 has sent over some information on the games.

Liberation Maiden from Suda 51, is a full-scale 3D sci-fi shooter set 100 years in the future in New Japan. Players take on the role of Shoko Ozora, piloting a humanoid robot called Kamui.

The game brings “AAA production values to the downloadable market in an unprecedented collaboration of all-star creators in music, art, and design, including breathtaking animation by the acclaimed animation studio, bones.”

Aero Porter combines puzzle elements with a simulation of airport operations. Designed by Seaman creator Yoot Saito, the player sorts color-coded luggage onto conveyor belts while avoiding mishaps and delays.

Players are also able to design and share their own planes with a wide range of colors and patterns.

Crimson Shroud was created by game designer, Yasumi Matsuno, whose previous works include Final Fantasy Tactics, Vagrant Story, and Tactics Ogre. The game is a new RPG that “reimagines the tabletop RPG, and puts the power of the dice in the player’s hands to determine their fates.”

The games were created in partnership with Level-5 through the Guild01 compilation for Nintendo 3DS, and a follow-up called Guild02 was announced in May 24, and will include designers Keiji Inafune, Kazuya Asano, Takemaru Abiko and Kaz Ayabe.

]]>http://www.vg247.com/2012/10/04/liberation-maiden-aero-porter-and-crimson-shroud-deatiled/feed/2Nintendo announces eShop line-up for users in North Americahttp://www.vg247.com/2012/10/04/nintendo-announces-eshop-line-up-for-nintendo-users-in-north-america/
http://www.vg247.com/2012/10/04/nintendo-announces-eshop-line-up-for-nintendo-users-in-north-america/#commentsThu, 04 Oct 2012 19:12:08 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=303761Nintendo 3DS owners in the US will be getting sequels to fan-favorite Pushmo, classics like Ninja Gaiden and Castlevania: The Adventure, plus a series of three original games developed by Level-5 and several well-known Japanese collaborators such as Suda 51 from today through the end of the year.

The following content is scheduled to launch in the Nintendo eShop in 2012, and we’ll start off with the original games line-up:

NightSky launches Oct. 25. NightSky is an action-puzzle game that offers an ambient game-play experience with cerebral challenges that fill uniquely designed, picturesque worlds. Each of these worlds is broken into different areas in which the player must maneuver a sphere by using realistic physics to advance.

Crashmo launches Nov. 22. Players can embrace the laws of gravity and challenge themselves with a whole new kind of action-puzzle play in this exciting sequel to the critically acclaimed Pushmo. New gravity mechanics and gadgets like floating blocks, doors and move switches await, testing players’ skills as they push, pull and slide each puzzle’s colorful blocks in order to climb to the top. Just be careful where those blocks are moved—unsupported blocks will come crashing down. Crashmo contains lots of puzzles to test your brains, and enhanced puzzle-creation and -sharing features mean that even when all the puzzles are cleared, the fun never has to stop.

Fluidity: Spin Cycle arrives on Dec. 27, letting players tilt, turn and even rotate their Nintendo 3DS system 360 degrees to maneuver a puddle of water named Eddy through a maze-like, magical world. Change from liquid to a block of ice or a steam cloud to solve fun, gravity-defying puzzles and defeat Goop monsters. Fluidity: Spin Cycle features a new storybook setting to explore that spans the ages, from a lost world full of dinosaurs to the modern world and beyond.

Three original games from LEVEL-5 and several well-known Japanese collaborators will launch in the Nintendo eShop for Nintendo 3DS before this holiday season. The first of these games, SUDA 51’s LIBERATION MAIDEN, is set 100 years in the future, when the president of Japan boards her Liberator, Kamui, and fights to free her country one region at a time. AERO PORTER by Yoot Saito and Yasumi Matsuno’s CRIMSON SHROUD are also slated for release by the end of the year.

Get ready to unleash pedestrian-tossing pandemonium with Grace and Savannah in Tokyo Crash Mobs, a fast-paced action-puzzle game coming to the Nintendo eShop for Nintendo 3DS in early 2013. Players will need lightning-fast reflexes and an eye for strategy to survive the three chaotic weeks that lie ahead for our heroines, as they take on anyone and anything that gets in their way.

Super Mario 3D Land, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D, Star Fox 64 3D and Mario Kart 7 will become available for purchase from the Nintendo eShop on October 18 for $39.99 each.

Additional Nintendo 3DS software currently only available at retail stores will become available in the Nintendo eShop in the future.

Virtual Console:

Mario Golf (launches Oct. 11)

Castlevania: The Adventure (launches Oct. 25)

Ninja Gaiden (launches Nov. 8)

Zelda II – The Adventure of Link (launches Nov. 22)

Wario Land II (launches Dec. 20)

Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels (launches Dec. 27)

Two demo versions of Style Savvy: Trendsetters will be available for download from the Nintendo eShop. The first demo is available today and the second demo will be available on November 1. Style Savvy: Trendsetters will launch in stores and in the Nintendo eShop on October 22.

]]>http://www.vg247.com/2012/10/04/nintendo-announces-eshop-line-up-for-nintendo-users-in-north-america/feed/0Paper Mario: Sticker Star dated, Devil Survivor, more coming to Europehttp://www.vg247.com/2012/10/04/nintendo-direct-europe-3ds-specific-broadcast-goes-live-at-7pm-uk/
http://www.vg247.com/2012/10/04/nintendo-direct-europe-3ds-specific-broadcast-goes-live-at-7pm-uk/#commentsThu, 04 Oct 2012 17:27:33 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=303718Liberation Maiden, Suda 51’s latest will release later today in Europe through Nintendo’s eShop, the firm has announced. Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overclocked is also heading to Europe this year, as well as Denpa Men: They Came by Wave, and Pullblox goes on sale starting today.

Nintendo Europe president Satoru Shibata hosted the Nintendo Direct Europe broadcast, and dropped a few dates on various titles, as well as information on a limited edition 3DS XL featuring Pikachu, and a white 3DS XL with Mario Kart 7 pre-installed on it.

Release dates for Paper Mario: Sticker Star and Pokemon Dream Radar were confirmed, along with Pokedex 3D Pro and Hana Samurai: Art of the Sword.

The first Custom Lesson will release for Art Academy will release through SpotPass. You can learn how to draw a Goomba.

A new Style Boutique will release on November 16 and a demo is in the works.

Pullblox will be on sale starting today and every day for six weeks, various games will go on sale.

Hana Samurai: Art of the Sword lands on the eSHop October 11.

Hydroventure: Spin Cycle, an eShop sequel to the WiiWare title, will release in December.

A trailer for Nano Assault EX on eShop was shown. iT will release later this year.

Denpa Men: They Came by Wave will release in Europe later this year.

Level-5 president Akihiro Hino stopped by to announce the games created through Guild01 will releases as individual eShop titles. This includes the new side-scrolling shooter from Suda51, Liberation Maiden. Crimson Shroud and Aero Porter will also be released, all within the next three months.

Liberation Maiden will be on sale today once the Nintendo Direct broadcast concludes.

Super Mario Land 3D, Mario Kart 7, Ocarina of Time 3D and Star Fox 64 3D will release on the eShop today.

Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate, which releases in March 2013 was shown. The video showed three 3DS systems connected locally to the Wii U version.

A white 3DS XL bundled with Mario Kart 7 pre-installed will be released on November 17.

Meanwhile, Fallblox will release as Crashmo in the US on November 22.

Videos from featured in the Nintendo Direct session have been posted by Nintendo. We’ll put those in a separate post for you.

The video of the broadcast is below.

]]>http://www.vg247.com/2012/10/04/nintendo-direct-europe-3ds-specific-broadcast-goes-live-at-7pm-uk/feed/1Quick Shots – Crimson Shroud gives off slight Vagrant Story vibehttp://www.vg247.com/2012/02/03/quick-shots-crimson-shroud-gives-off-slight-vagrant-story-vibe/
http://www.vg247.com/2012/02/03/quick-shots-crimson-shroud-gives-off-slight-vagrant-story-vibe/#commentsFri, 03 Feb 2012 05:25:03 +0000http://www.vg247.com/?p=231132The first game from Tactics Ogre and Vagrant Story creator Yasumi Matsuno since his departure from Square Enix looks to tick all the right boxes.

Crimson Shroud is part of Grasshopper Manufacture’s collection Guild01, and thanks to an update to the game’s official website, translated by Siliconera, we now know a little more about it.

Players control Giaque, the spiky haired dude, who is a 20-something Chaser – that is, a professional sleuth, finding missing people and objects for clients.

Two party members are seen in the new images, along with Crimson Shroud’s visual novel story telling, tabletop-RPG inspired dice rolling, and one of the game’s maps, the Rahab Palace.

One other tidbit came out of the update; the music comes courtesy of Hitoshi Sakimoto, a prolific composer with credits ranging from Tekken through Final Fantasy, Gradius, and Bomberman.

Guild01 is a 3DS exclusive due in Japan some time in 2012; western release has not been confirmed.